Diánoia — G1271

Definition

feminine noun

deep thought, properly, the faculty (mind or its disposition), by implication, its exercise

1. the mind as the faculty qf understanding, feeling, desiring
2. understanding
3. mind, i. e. spirit (Latinanimus), way of thinking and feeling
4. thought

Usually translated as

mind, understanding, imagination

Origin

from G1223 and G3563

• diá (G1223)
• noûs (G3563)

Occurrences

Diánoia occurs 13 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Matthew (1), Mark (1), Luke (2), Ephesians (3), Colossians (1), Hebrews (2), 1 Peter (1), 2 Peter (1), 1 John (1)

• Matthew 22:37 — Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind (διανοίᾳ).
• Mark 12:30 — And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind (διανοίας), and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
• Luke 1:51 — He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination (διανοίᾳ) of their hearts.
• Luke 10:27 — And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind (διανοίας); and thy neighbour as thyself.
• Ephesians 1:18 — The eyes of your understanding (διανοίας) being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
• Ephesians 2:3 — Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind (διανοιῶν); and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
• Ephesians 4:18 — Having the understanding (διανοίᾳ) darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
• Colossians 1:21 — And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind (διανοίᾳ) by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
• Hebrews 8:10 — For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind (διάνοιαν), and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
• Hebrews 10:16 — This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds (διανοιῶν) will I write them;
• 1 Peter 1:13 — Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind (διανοίας), be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
• 2 Peter 3:1 — This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds (διάνοιαν) by way of remembrance:
• 1 John 5:20 — And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding (διάνοιαν), that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.